Sports stars, families targeted by criminals

It was broad daylight on Sept. 1 when four gunmen, in police uniforms, burst into a farmhouse in a heavily populated area south of Caracas and kidnapped Maura Josefina Villareal, the 54-year-old mother of former Marlins pitcher Ugueth Urbina. Nearly five months later, a $6 million ransom remains unpaid and the kidnapping remains unresolved. And neither Venezuelan authorities nor the intensely private Urbina, who will return to Florida in three weeks to begin spring training, wish to discuss the case. Full Story

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